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Speaker 6: another installment of Trump two point zero coming.
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Speaker 6: Thoroughly dislike hearing that you've been feeling under the weather
Speaker 6: since the election. Don't worry. Pretty soon everyone else will
Speaker 6: be sick too. Pres Intelect Trump on truth Social just
Speaker 6: made it official.
Speaker 5: He wrote, quote, I am thrilled to announce Robert F.
Speaker 7: Kennedy Junior as the United States Secretary of Health and
Speaker 7: Human Services. Yeah, unpasteurized will juice for everybody. Wow, this
Speaker 7: is exciting news. We are making things in America again,
Speaker 7: specifically patient zeros. Of course, with Trump, there's never just
Speaker 7: one horrifying thing to focus on today. The fallout continued
Speaker 7: over Trump's pick for Attorney General, Matt Gates House Republican
Speaker 7: and guy who's had more needles in his face than pinhead. Now, yesterday,
Speaker 7: Trump selected Gates to lead the DOJ, and his future
Speaker 7: employees couldn't be happier.
Speaker 8: Multiple current and former senior officials left speechless, calling it insane, unbelievable,
Speaker 8: and one saying he is the least qualified person ever
Speaker 8: nominated for a position in the Department of Justice.
Speaker 6: I think what I'm hearing is he has a lot
Speaker 6: of potential. Seriously, the least qualified ever. Keep in mind
Speaker 6: that includes one of Trump's previous ags, who once starred
Speaker 6: in promotional videos for a toilet for well endowed men.
Speaker 6: And yes, this was a real thing that happened during
Speaker 6: Trump's first term. You don't remember it, which is okay
Speaker 6: because if it's in any consolation, maybe someday we'll.
Speaker 5: Forget all this too. But I'll tell you. I'll tell
Speaker 5: you who's not disappointed by this point. I'll tell you
Speaker 5: he's not disappointed by this pick.
Speaker 6: Matt Gates, aka the guy who plays Bob's big boy
Speaker 6: in porn parodies.
Speaker 5: Gates is ready to go.
Speaker 6: In fact, as soon as he was nominated, he immediately
Speaker 6: resigned from his House seat so he could get the
Speaker 6: ball rolling. He's just that eager to begin, generally, attorney
Speaker 6: unless you know there was I don't know some other
Speaker 6: reason he resigned so quickly.
Speaker 9: He's been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over
Speaker 9: an allegation that he paid for.
Speaker 3: Sex with a seventeen year old.
Speaker 9: His resignation from the House will effectively end that investigation,
Speaker 9: with that report due to be out Friday.
Speaker 6: Wow Wow wow, wow wow. What a crafty legal maneuver
Speaker 6: by Matt Gates. He must be dating a girl who
Speaker 6: does mock trial. Now call me old fashioned, but it
Speaker 6: seems to me like a guy who was recently investigated
Speaker 6: by the Justice Department isn't the best fit to lead
Speaker 6: the Justice departments.
Speaker 5: But maybe that's coastal elite talk.
Speaker 6: I assume congressional Republicans are excited for one of their
Speaker 6: own to be elevated to such a lofty position.
Speaker 5: Let's hear them gloat to reporters. They try to talk to.
Speaker 8: A lot of Republican senators tonight about Matt Gates being
Speaker 8: nominated the post, and they being clear they were not
Speaker 8: ready to engage.
Speaker 3: What about Matt Gates.
Speaker 10: Us report him process?
Speaker 3: I don't know yet.
Speaker 5: I think about that one. Do you think mac Gates
Speaker 5: is confirmable?
Speaker 10: Senator Kennedy, what do you think of Matt Gates is
Speaker 10: Attorney General.
Speaker 3: Every Thanksgiving?
Speaker 6: Every Thanksgiving, Matt Gates has nothing to do with Thanksgiving
Speaker 6: besides him and the turkeys both needing pardons. Of course,
Speaker 6: I would say I like this strategy for avoiding the press.
Speaker 5: Though, sir, do you have regrets about the internment camps?
Speaker 5: Happy Arbor Day?
Speaker 6: And if you're wondering why does Matt Gates's own party
Speaker 6: hate him so much? The answer would actually take some time.
Speaker 6: It's not just the underage sex allegation. It's also that
Speaker 6: he routinely attacks other Republicans, he doesn't do any work himself,
Speaker 6: and his personal quest to overthrow Speaker Kevin McCarthy so.
Speaker 5: Divided his party.
Speaker 6: A fellow Republican had to be restrained by the mouth
Speaker 6: from fighting him on the House floor. It was the
Speaker 6: first time in history Congress had to call a face
Speaker 6: mask penalty. And Gates hasn't just been instigating coups against
Speaker 6: his own leaders. Even his social skills gave his fellow
Speaker 6: Republicans the ick. Take it from Republican Mark Wayne Mullen.
Speaker 11: We had all seen the videos he was showing on
Speaker 11: the house floor that all of us had walked away.
Speaker 11: Of the girls that he had slept with, he'd brag
Speaker 11: about how he would crush ed medicine and chase it
Speaker 11: with with an energy drink so he could go all night.
Speaker 6: First of all, I'm not sure Matt Gatez knows how
Speaker 6: to brag. You're you're going around telling coworkers that you're
Speaker 6: freebasing viagra, and.
Speaker 5: You know, I had to use an extra small condom. Bro, Yeah,
Speaker 5: give me up top a super timer.
Speaker 12: Yeah bro, Oh, I could barely get it off.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: For the love of God, who drinks energy drinks pound
Speaker 6: some coffee like an adult sexual predator.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 6: Clearly, the Justice Department is about to get a hardcore
Speaker 6: bro makeover. I mean, once Gates is in power, you're
Speaker 6: gonna get to plead guilty, not guilty and the problem man.
Speaker 6: More importantly, there's not a single thing we've seen from
Speaker 6: Matt Gates' career or character that would make him fit
Speaker 6: to be the Attorney General of the United States.
Speaker 5: Luckily, all will take to stop him.
Speaker 6: It's for his own colleagues, who legitimately hate him, to
Speaker 6: show the slightest bit of spine. What say you, Mark,
Speaker 6: Wayne Mullen?
Speaker 5: Are you gonna vote for mccags?
Speaker 11: I completely trust President Trump's decision making on this one.
Speaker 3: I don't get it.
Speaker 5: Do you hate Matt Gates or not?
Speaker 2: Mark?
Speaker 3: Wayne?
Speaker 6: You can't have it both ways, unlike your mom did
Speaker 6: when she couldn't decide whether to name.
Speaker 3: You Mark or Wayne.
Speaker 5: Cone.
Speaker 6: There you have it, folks, The Republican submission to Donald
Speaker 6: Trump in a nutshell, Matt Gates is a creep who
Speaker 6: forced me to watch his sex tapes, and yes, I
Speaker 6: will be voting for him.
Speaker 5: Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 6: For more on the congressional reaction to the Matt Gates nomination,
Speaker 6: we go Live to the Capitol with Desi Leideck.
Speaker 3: DESI, no, we've.
Speaker 6: Heard from Republicans, but what's the Democratic strategy for Matt Gates?
Speaker 13: Well, Jordan, I spoke to Democrats and their strategy is
Speaker 13: to vote for him unanimously.
Speaker 5: Democrats will vote for him.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's part of a new strategy that they call
Speaker 13: and I quote, walk around and find out.
Speaker 14: Yeah, if Donald.
Speaker 13: Trump wants a coke clown, is a g Donald Trump
Speaker 13: gets a coke clown? Is ag have fun watching his
Speaker 13: press conferences where he shows a video of him Eiffel Tower,
Speaker 13: some chick, Do you need me to explain that to you?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 6: No, no, I get it? Is that really how the
Speaker 6: Dems are going to respond.
Speaker 13: To the AG, not just the AG, the entire Trump presidency.
Speaker 13: RFK at the Health Department, Fox News guy is Defense Secretary.
Speaker 13: Democrats are not going to try to clean up the
Speaker 13: MAGA messes anymore. You know, you want to be bad
Speaker 13: and smoke a cigarette. Well, guess what now you got
Speaker 13: to smoke the whole carton good news. According to rfk's
Speaker 13: new health guidelines, it's healthier than vaccines.
Speaker 6: I understand that impulse, but isn't that going to just
Speaker 6: be bad for the voters?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 13: I asked Nancy Pelosi that and she said, oh, the voters.
Speaker 13: How did the voters vote again last Tuesday?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 13: I got a recount right here? Oh turns out she
Speaker 13: didn't have the recount.
Speaker 5: It was just her middle finger, right.
Speaker 6: I guess Democrats have a right to be upset, But
Speaker 6: aren't they at least a little concern that Gates could
Speaker 6: weaponize the judiciary.
Speaker 5: To go after them? Yeah?
Speaker 13: See, I asked Nancy Pelosi about that too, and she said,
Speaker 13: oh yeah, I'm so scared of legal mastermind Matt Gates
Speaker 13: coming after me. I can't wait to see his indictment
Speaker 13: written in crayon. Here's my response, and then you can
Speaker 13: imagine my surprise when she just pulled out her middle finger.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it seems like she only has that one move.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a decent move.
Speaker 6: So their attitude towards Republicans is basically, you made your bed,
Speaker 6: now you get.
Speaker 5: To lie in.
Speaker 13: Yeah, exactly, But with Matt Gates, you might want to
Speaker 13: change his sheets first.
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Speaker 6: Well, now, I've got great opinions, but I'm not the
Speaker 6: only one. Studies show that other people also have opinions.
Speaker 6: So here with another installment of in my opinion is
Speaker 6: our good friend Charlemagne the Gods.
Speaker 15: Hey, look, I'm not gonna bullshit you right now. I'm confused, Yeah,
Speaker 15: more confused in America after finding out John Krasinski one
Speaker 15: sexiest man alive, he wasn't even the sexiest man on
Speaker 15: the office.
Speaker 14: Yeah, y'ad le Kevin hit.
Speaker 15: Yeah, And what's confusing me is that for three years
Speaker 15: up until last Tuesday. If you ask any Democrat what
Speaker 15: they thought about Donald Trump, they say something like this.
Speaker 5: Donald Trump said he would be a dictator on day one.
Speaker 2: No one has ever been more dangerous to this country
Speaker 2: than Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: Trump is fascist to the core.
Speaker 15: I want to be dictator, running around trying to punish
Speaker 15: his enemies.
Speaker 2: Take what his progo, look at what his objectives.
Speaker 5: It is totally a democratic.
Speaker 11: He says that he wants to be a dictator on
Speaker 11: day one, he means it.
Speaker 15: Damn Joe Biden was on such high alert he almost
Speaker 15: opened his eyes for a second there. So the part
Speaker 15: that's confusing me is, if all that is true, what
Speaker 15: the hell is this?
Speaker 2: It was an encounter many thought could never happen, but
Speaker 2: in front of a roaring fire, the current and future
Speaker 2: president exhibited warms welcome, thank you.
Speaker 15: Who knew the follow democracy would seem so cozy. It's
Speaker 15: like seeing hit Let's take over Europe and a snuggie.
Speaker 5: That's not how you beef.
Speaker 15: Trust me, Drake isn't inviting Kendrick to a slumber party
Speaker 15: anytime soon. When you get in a room with someone
Speaker 15: even jd Vance called Hitler, you don't say I have
Speaker 15: your back, you say.
Speaker 16: I have a clock. Yeah, and look, look, look, look, look,
Speaker 16: I understand that you have to transfer power peacefully because
Speaker 16: you're not fascist, But there's.
Speaker 15: Nothing in the constitution that says you have to be
Speaker 15: nice about it. At least take the opportunity to quit
Speaker 15: them all right. Swap his diet coke with kombucha. Change
Speaker 15: the computer passwords to Eric's birthday so he can't log in.
Speaker 15: Switch the toilet paper in the Oval office toilet so
Speaker 15: it hangs under.
Speaker 5: I don't know, man, do something, Okay.
Speaker 15: And look, just because I don't want Democrats singing kumbay
Speaker 15: y'all with Trump doesn't mean I think they should go
Speaker 15: all in on trying to take him down. First of all,
Speaker 15: well they already tried that a lot. Okay, I don't
Speaker 15: have the energy for it anymore. Dude, got in peace twice.
Speaker 15: I still get PTSD when someone says the words Muller report.
Speaker 3: But also, and this is.
Speaker 15: The unpopular opinion if you're not a Republican, I want
Speaker 15: Trump to succeed, or at least I don't want him
Speaker 15: to fail so badly he takes down the country with him. Yeah, eah,
Speaker 15: come on, come on, Okay, I love America. We got
Speaker 15: waffle houses here, all right. And there's still a chance
Speaker 15: that Donald Trump and his friends won't turn the country
Speaker 15: into a fascist funhouse. You know who says they won't
Speaker 15: Donald Trump and his friends.
Speaker 6: Donald Trump is not going to rule as a dictator.
Speaker 5: He's not a dictator. He's not a threat to democracy.
Speaker 5: He's fun He's not a fascist.
Speaker 6: Was Hitler making self deprecating jokes. No.
Speaker 10: They accuse me of being a Hitler type guy or
Speaker 10: a Hitler lover, and I'm not. I'm the opposite.
Speaker 5: Opposite of Hitler.
Speaker 15: I don't know what that means, unless it's his weird
Speaker 15: way of telling us he's circumcised. So listen, both sides
Speaker 15: had their campaign rhetoric. Trump came out on top, and
Speaker 15: in a few years we're gonna find out who is
Speaker 15: right and who was wrong. I'm a person who's called
Speaker 15: him a fascist. I want to be wrong, and maybe
Speaker 15: we all will be because don't forget, one thing Trump
Speaker 15: loves more than anything is being unpredictable. He loves it
Speaker 15: more than he loves his children. Okay, bad example. He
Speaker 15: loves it more than KFC. And now he has a
Speaker 15: chance to do something truly unexpected.
Speaker 5: Don't be a fascist.
Speaker 15: And maybe you think that's not possible, but you know me,
Speaker 15: I'm an optimist. I think if I can just talk
Speaker 15: to Donald Trump directly, I can convince him. So let
Speaker 15: me try, mister Trump, sir, Mister Trump, sir, you're a
Speaker 15: manly man with great hair and the tightest neck pussy
Speaker 15: I've ever seen. Yeah, he's listening now, sir. I need
Speaker 15: to talk to you about your plans right now.
Speaker 5: You can do anything you want.
Speaker 15: You have both Houses of Congress, and thanks to the
Speaker 15: Supreme Court, you can feed Nancy Pelosi to alligators and
Speaker 15: call it an official act. But that's what all your
Speaker 15: enemies say you're going to do. And just think about
Speaker 15: how stupid deal. Look if you don't, you know what
Speaker 15: liberals hate even more than being thrown into a CIA
Speaker 15: black site, being wrong. You could own the lives so
Speaker 15: hard just by not being a fascist. Not being a
Speaker 15: fascist is so easy.
Speaker 4: Look, I'm doing it right now, by the way, I'm
Speaker 4: still doing it.
Speaker 3: It's simple.
Speaker 15: Okay, you don't even have to do good things for America.
Speaker 15: Just do nothing. Go golfing, all right, that's right. You
Speaker 15: love golfing and you're so good at it too.
Speaker 5: We all know you cheats.
Speaker 15: You know what, mister President, will even let you have
Speaker 15: a little personal corruption as a reward. Okay, just leave
Speaker 15: the Constitution in one piece and we'll let you skim
Speaker 15: a billion or two out of the Medicare budget.
Speaker 14: It's fine.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 15: You could literally sit on your ass doing nothing for
Speaker 15: four years straight and you'll be considered the greatest president
Speaker 15: of all time just because you didn't destroy democracy like.
Speaker 5: They said you would.
Speaker 15: Yes, and listen, mister president, if you just destroyed the
Speaker 15: economy lead us into a recession, I can live with that.
Speaker 15: That's normal Republican president stuff. Just keep your big, strong,
Speaker 15: not tiny hands out of the fastest cookie jar. And
Speaker 15: maybe maybe I still think you're gonna do it anyway.
Speaker 15: But the quote the great philosopher Sabrina Carpenter, Please please
Speaker 15: please don't prove I'm right, but that is my opinion.
Speaker 5: Telling me, my god, everybody, we come back.
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Speaker 6: Away, Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight
Speaker 6: is a legendary Academy Award winning filmmaker whose latest film
Speaker 6: is called Please Welcome Me. Francis Bord Coopela, welcome.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thanks you us you, thank you.
Speaker 6: This sure, this, this truly is an honor.
Speaker 5: I will say.
Speaker 6: I remember in college going to see Apocalypse Now.
Speaker 5: I got to see it in the theater. It was
Speaker 5: being re released.
Speaker 6: I saw it in the theater, and it expanded my
Speaker 6: mind as to what I could and should expect from cinema.
Speaker 5: It was surreal, it was dark, it was literary.
Speaker 6: And then last week I get to go and see
Speaker 6: Megalopolis and it continued on that trajectory, expanding what I
Speaker 6: think one should expect or can expect and see in cinema.
Speaker 1: Because you didn't say the last thing you said Apocalypse
Speaker 1: Now was all those things that got terrible reviews.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to say it, you know, And and
Speaker 5: we've done it again. This is what it is. Court court,
Speaker 5: the bastards, right, you know, I mean.
Speaker 1: You know, they want, they want movies to be something
Speaker 1: that they I cannot risk, they cannot possibly lose on.
Speaker 1: And to me, you know, making art without risk is
Speaker 1: like making babies without sex. It's possible, but it's not
Speaker 1: the way to do it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you're not wrong. This film deals with a lot.
Speaker 6: This film is there's big themes in here. Time, Rome,
Speaker 6: Ancient Rome, the fall of America. You've been working on
Speaker 6: this or been thinking about this idea for forty years?
Speaker 1: Well, I not exactly, but I was working on something
Speaker 1: that I thought could be my style, because you know,
Speaker 1: I made a lot of films that I'm happy you enjoyed,
Speaker 1: but they were all in different styles, and I wondered
Speaker 1: if I had a style or basically it was going
Speaker 1: to be different for every movie. So I took after
Speaker 1: I made a John Grisham movie called I Think it
Speaker 1: was The rain Maker, I took ten years of it
Speaker 1: turns out I took fourteen years off and I just
Speaker 1: wanted to learn, learn more, you know what I could do,
Speaker 1: and I kept notebooks, and eventually I decided that since
Speaker 1: America founded itself based on Rome because they didn't want
Speaker 1: a king, Rome invented a new form of government called
Speaker 1: the republic because they had had a terrible king and
Speaker 1: they absolutely did not want a king in America didn't
Speaker 1: want the English king. And the people who found in
Speaker 1: America were all, you know, educated people, which meant they
Speaker 1: spoke Latin, they studied Latin, they studied the Roman, and
Speaker 1: they had read Caesar and the Gaelic Wars and Cicero.
Speaker 1: So they decided to make a country with senators and
Speaker 1: with the Roman law. We all know what pro bono means,
Speaker 1: and habeas corpus. That's because we took Roman law. And
Speaker 1: what happened to Rome when it lost its republic was
Speaker 1: a lot of money came into Rome, but instead of
Speaker 1: going to the people, that basically made the senator rich
Speaker 1: and powerful. And the same thing happened in America recently
Speaker 1: after World War Two. So with exactly the same situation,
Speaker 1: the same result happened, and we we we got a
Speaker 1: new government which which may very well not continue the republic.
Speaker 1: We don't know. We're about to find out. We're about
Speaker 1: to get the news.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean if Megalopolis follows this, this once great
Speaker 6: city in decline. Do you know who the attorney general
Speaker 6: is has been decided?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure he's someone who is going to if
Speaker 1: he's not attorney general, he's going to be arrested by
Speaker 1: the attorney general. Yes, that's probably what's going to happen.
Speaker 5: Part of this.
Speaker 6: You also self financed this film by selling off some
Speaker 6: of your wine making.
Speaker 1: Well, the same is with Apocalypse Now Apocalypse. Now I
Speaker 1: ended up. You know, you know, you know, you know
Speaker 1: who owns Apocalypse now by the way, now I do
Speaker 1: you know why? Why nobody wanted it? And and if
Speaker 1: you can imagine interest during the time of apocact that
Speaker 1: was twenty one percent. That's not a joke, it's true, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and so but now it's not so much. So it's better.
Speaker 5: You sell a part of your winery though to pay
Speaker 5: for this project.
Speaker 1: I basically I didn't. I borrowed the money from the
Speaker 1: bank based on a winery that I had, so now
Speaker 1: I have to pay it back in the year.
Speaker 6: Is that advice you would give to a young filmmakers
Speaker 6: first start in the wine business to get your financial
Speaker 6: all settled.
Speaker 1: My advice to a young filmmaker would make the film
Speaker 1: any way you can, and you know whatever way. Rake
Speaker 1: it with your iPhone, make it with your parents credit card.
Speaker 1: But but but but try to make and make it
Speaker 1: be personal because movies you know everyone in the world,
Speaker 1: all of our cousins, because we're all related in one
Speaker 1: big family, as you know.
Speaker 5: I mean, really is that right?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I haven't seen any cut of the wine
Speaker 6: making business from you.
Speaker 5: I feel like, are we a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I mean we're cousins.
Speaker 6: Okay, so yeah, you don't pay off, you don't pay
Speaker 6: off you, but can't help me with my tuition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And we've only existed for about three hundred thousand years,
Speaker 1: and we know only since this writing has only been
Speaker 1: six seven thousand years. We only know what happened the
Speaker 1: last ten thousand years, and that's when the men really
Speaker 1: took over and we had for the first time a patriarchy.
Speaker 1: Before that, we don't know what we had. It might
Speaker 1: have been better, but we have no way we can guess.
Speaker 1: And if it was a matriarchy. The thing that's difference
Speaker 1: between a matriarchy and a patriarchy is that the women
Speaker 1: didn't really give orders, but they were good colleagues and
Speaker 1: we worked together and we ensured, you know, that there
Speaker 1: was enough order for the kids, and there was this.
Speaker 1: Women are very very good leaders, they really and they are.
Speaker 14: Well.
Speaker 6: Perhaps perhaps the country can look into giving one a
Speaker 6: shot in the air future.
Speaker 1: Well, one day, one day, I'm sure, I mean, we
Speaker 1: all you know, I've tried to see the bright side
Speaker 1: of everything because I'm I'm like your previous host, I'm
Speaker 1: an optimistic I truly am. I love I love people,
Speaker 1: and I and I want the world to be beautiful
Speaker 1: for our children because they didn't do anything to deserve
Speaker 1: the mess that they might.
Speaker 6: Is that the film, there's a lot of hope it
Speaker 6: makes there.
Speaker 1: Is the film is filled with hope, and the ending
Speaker 1: is very positive. And I stand by the ending. The ending,
Speaker 1: you know, really, what it comes down to is that
Speaker 1: we are capable of solving any problem that was put
Speaker 1: in front of us. We there's no there's no you know,
Speaker 1: we're intelligent, but you know, there's no creature on earth
Speaker 1: any work even close to what we can do. And
Speaker 1: the octopuses are very smart and they're very nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but but the human being is extraordinary. And the fact
Speaker 1: is that why do people constantly try to make you
Speaker 1: feel less than you are? And that's because you're you're
Speaker 1: a better customer if you don't feel too powerful, If
Speaker 1: you know, we spend probably eight trillion dollars a year
Speaker 1: on advertising, which is basically selling a little bit of
Speaker 1: happiness to people in the form of what they can buy.
Speaker 1: But you can't sell happiness to happy people because they're
Speaker 1: already happy. So so so what that means, what that
Speaker 1: means is there are, there are efforts to make us
Speaker 1: be less happy than is necessary so we'll be better customers.
Speaker 1: So in other way, if you tell people, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: human beings are geniuses. We're all a family of geniuses,
Speaker 1: they'll say, well, yeah, but we are, but those people
Speaker 1: are not. So let's let's let's not let them in
Speaker 1: our country. Let's keep treat them terribly and and uh
Speaker 1: and uh and and the truth of the matter is
Speaker 1: that that that's not true, that that that we're being
Speaker 1: kept deliberately felt to be less than we are so
Speaker 1: we could be better sold to and and and that's
Speaker 1: what's happening.
Speaker 5: I mean, I do think I'm hearing you. It does.
Speaker 6: I mean, the media landscape does treat us as consumers
Speaker 6: and consumers only. I think what is compelling about some
Speaker 6: of what you're trying to do in Megalopolis is is
Speaker 6: to break open some of the mold well, to.
Speaker 1: Explain what's going on, because even what you said isn't
Speaker 1: true anymore. It used to be, Yes, it's not true.
Speaker 5: It just change it.
Speaker 1: Yes, it just got worse because what they're doing is
Speaker 1: it used to be that you sold to by by
Speaker 1: what the product was. Now you're selling the identity. If
Speaker 1: you look at television today and you look and you
Speaker 1: look at the way that's styled, in the way they're dressed,
Speaker 1: and who they're married to, you're meant to say, hey,
Speaker 1: those are people like us. And so they're selling an identity.
Speaker 1: And then by you buying the identity that they've sold you,
Speaker 1: they want you to be loyal to the brand that
Speaker 1: that identity is loyal to. And that's when they start
Speaker 1: selling who you are. Then you know that it's gone
Speaker 1: too far.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I agree with that. Where my citicism comes in.
Speaker 6: My citicism comes in is if this is all a
Speaker 6: war for attention, whether it's on social media, whether it's
Speaker 6: the Internet or just media in general, I feel like
Speaker 6: the quickest way to get those eyes is with short,
Speaker 6: loud bursts of anger and flash. And what it does
Speaker 6: is it warps the way in which we take in information,
Speaker 6: hold information, and communicate in general. I think, like I
Speaker 6: feel myself, being unable to hold long conversations or depth
Speaker 6: of thought is harder and harder to reach because of.
Speaker 5: These these mediums that we're in.
Speaker 6: You work in a medium cinema that'll ask people to
Speaker 6: sit and think about something for two hours.
Speaker 1: But they don't ask that anymore. Now they ask you
Speaker 1: to go to see something that you already know what
Speaker 1: you're going to see, because you've seen six versions of
Speaker 1: it already, and and therefore you're you're They want you
Speaker 1: to be addicted to it the way they want you
Speaker 1: to be addicted to a particular food product or something
Speaker 1: you know. In other words, they don't want there to
Speaker 1: be any chance that they won't make money.
Speaker 5: But how do you bo?
Speaker 6: That's what they are doing, But what are you doing?
Speaker 6: How do you how do you create in that atmosphere?
Speaker 6: Because I feel like your your audience, no matter what,
Speaker 6: is going to walk into that thea.
Speaker 5: There's no line on.
Speaker 1: My movie that he says, when you leap into the unknown,
Speaker 1: you prove you are free. So I leap into the
Speaker 1: unknown whenever I can, because I want to be free.
Speaker 2: If I don't even.
Speaker 14: Wear the same sucks anywhere.
Speaker 5: What I got.
Speaker 14: I got two different colored socks, You.
Speaker 5: Got two different colored socks.
Speaker 1: I don't have to wear the same colored socks that
Speaker 1: I don't want it.
Speaker 3: It's the great rules.
Speaker 6: Consistently select theaters and available to stream.
Speaker 12: Now treads bln culpa.
Speaker 14: You want back after.
Speaker 12: That that's a show for tonight.
Speaker 5: Now here. It is your moment of dead. People within
Speaker 5: the Trump team are now jockeying over who will get
Speaker 5: a spot in his second cabinet, and you can call
Speaker 5: this one Game of Thrones Trump edition.
Speaker 11: Like the legend of Caligula, the Roman emperor who wanted
Speaker 11: to nominate his horse as a Roman consule.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're in the Twilight Zone.
Speaker 11: If you know Star Wars, this is Emperor Palpatine's stuff.
Speaker 5: It was more Star Trek than Star Wars.
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